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PS3s Online Services to Compete With XBox 360

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-surprise-here dept.

wh0pper writes "Dubbed WA!PS3 Online, Sony plans to combat the Xbox 360's download service with their own service for the Playstation 3. Though this is only going to happen in Asian markets at first, this adds even more fuel to the fiery debate over whether the Playstation 3 will have a hard drive included with the system. The Playstation 3 will be able to download games to the console for gamers to play and Sony says it will be better than the Xbox 360's features."

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  1. Where's the real stuff? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think I speak for a very large portion of the gamer base if I say :"Put up or shut up."

    So far Sony has been able to provide people with.. promises. Nothing concrete and no I don't consider a few screenshots or videos here or there as believeable material as most of them have already been revealed to be pre-rendered material.

    There's way too much hyping on both sides, yet only one party has so far been able to even deliver a reasonably working box to consumers.

  2. No HD in the US = foolish by stupidfoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's the most widely acclaimed feature of the Xbox 360 so far? Xbox Live Arcade and Marketplace (downloading demos).

    There is no question that any next gen system needs to have some type of local mass storage. The only question is how big it needs to be. The 360's 20GB HD is already looking way too small.

    Oh and Fight Night Round 3 kicks ass.

  3. "Better than the Xbox 360!" by Sparks23 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...Sony says it will be better than the Xbox 360's features.

    'cause no company, anywhere, has ever made claims like this as a matter of course. I mean, I'm sure Sony actually /will/ put together a good service; they have the know-how over in the Sony Online Entertainment division. But did that even really need to be quoted in the article? It's pretty much a given that Company A is going to say, when hyping their product, that it will be better than Company B's.

    I mean, can you imagine Nintendo, for instance, coming out and going, "Yes! The Revolution is cool...! But the Xbox 360 is a better product." Even if it were true (and of course, the jury is still out on the competition to the 360), of course they wouldn't say it. ;)

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    1. Re:"Better than the Xbox 360!" by masklinn · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I'm sure Sony actually /will/ put together a good service

      I'm not, ever browsed a sony portal/website? You can hardly find worse pieces of crap.

      they have the know-how over in the Sony Online Entertainment division

      Yeah, the makers of SWG, the sinkers of Everquest, woohoo, that's something to look forward to, kind of like watching the titanic depart from england after knowing the end of the story.

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  4. Re:Other PS3 storage media. by GodBlessTexas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not exactly. I picked up a 1GB MS Pro Duo on sale for $45. You can pick up 2GB for around $100 shipped if you look. If the PS3 doesn't come with a HD, and I don't think it will to keep costs down so the $499, $45 for 1GB of storage space isn't a bad idea. Compared to $40 for 8MB of space on the PS2, it's a pretty significant price reduction.

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  5. In other news... by aardwolf64 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    PS3s Online Services to Compete With XBox360

    Well, duh! In other news, Coke to compete with Pepsi!!! Stay tuned to Slashdot where, after these brief messages from the OSDN ad network, we'll discuss how Gillette's next product will be competing with Schick! :-P

  6. Re:Goes something like this: by iapetus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's the most willfully ass-backward analogy I've seen in a long while. Nintendo's the one producing the less technologically advanced solution. A better way to look at it is that Microsoft have made an Uzi, Sony are working on an AK-47, and Nintendo are putting the finishing touches to a Nerf Chinese repeating crossbow. I know which has the latest and greatest technology, but I'm sure there's fun to be had with the crossbow that I won't get elsewhere as well.

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  7. Re:Here come to mod-downs by E-Rock · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sony is scared shitless that the people holding out for a PS3 will stop waiting and buy a 360.

    There are good reasons to think the PS3 will be a 2007 release in a giant box at $1000 (the PS3 is a Blu-ray player and more, how's it going to be half the size and half the price of a Blu-ray player alone?) so Sony keeps making sure little blurbs about how awesome they are and that the PS3 is just around the corner. Of course the fact that no one has seen one, and that they aren't even showing demos, but only pre-rendered cut scenes is getting hard to ignore.

  8. Re:Too bad for Sony... by Comen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Dont get me wrong, I like the xbox, I got media center setup and waiting on one though.
    But these half-ass releases make me mad, on both sides, can't they step up the production? what good is advertising things when you cant even suppy them?

    I Still cant belive I cant walk in to Best Buy yet and buy one of these things.
    I keep calling around and everyone says they had some, but they were gone as soon as they came in!

    Havent found a online site yet that is selling them that is not a total rip off.